Enewsletter

Enewsletter • December 8, 2002

News

Now Shipping – New
Why Vegans!!

We are extremely pleased to announce that the new Why Vegans
are now shipping from the printer. Those who had backorders
for boxes of 300 should receive them sometime next week (note –
they will be copies from the Farm Sanctuary sponsored printing, which
printed first). Here at the office, we're anxiously awaiting our
copies as well, and will then start filling the smaller backorders.

We will be sending a copy to each of our members as a special holiday
present. In the meantime, you can download
a pdf of the final version. Thanks to everyone who made this
possible; together, we can make the new year the best ever for the
animals.

Have a Dell Coupon?

Selected customers receive private email coupons for a percentage
off purchases at Dell. If you received one you won't use (for home,
small business, or education), please donate
it to Vegan Outreach. Thanks!

A super special thanks to Vanessa Marcol, for her donation of a
15% off coupon to Vegan Outreach!

Displays

Thanks so much for putting together and offering
the color
posters and prints of factory farm animals. The larger format
ones are the best I've seen. We put together a "Welcome to the
Slaughterhouse" display using a separate panel for each animal
(pigs, birds, cows) and the number slaughtered each year. I use this
display all the time. I laminated all the images and put velcro on
the back... it's completely interchangeable so we can tailor it to
each demo.

The feedback has been terrific. Many of the
people that will not watch the video footage check out the display
instead. Very powerful!!

For the animals,
David Thornton
Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN)

Join hundreds of other young animal advocates and dozens of the leading
authors, speakers, and organizers of the animal rights movement (including
Jack Norris of Vegan Outreach!) for the second national student animal
rights conference.

Advocates
for Animals Turn Attention to ChickensMiyun Park cradled
a nearly featherless hen in her arms while cooing to a playpen
filled with several more hens she had stolen from a nearby egg
farm, an act of protest she calls a "rescue" from inhumane
conditions. The henhouse raid in November was the second for Ms.
Park, 32, and an animal advocacy group called Compassion Over Killing.
Members of the group court arrest by entering chicken sheds at
night and filming the rows of hens crammed 10 to a cage the size
of a file-drawer cabinet. They get close-ups of swollen eyes, infected
skin and shattered wings entangled in cage wire.

Group
alleges egg farms are cruel
An animal rights group alleged Wednesday that its investigation
of a Baltimore-area egg farm found chickens living in "unimaginably
cruel conditions" with up to 11 hens stuffed into wire cages
so tightly they couldn't stretch their wings.

It very well may be that the tide might be turning, both in terms
of the public's awareness, and the movement's focus. The idea of
focusing our limited resources on the 99+% of animals killed in the
U.S. is spreading. As also pointed out by the New York Times in their
article about COK:

After focusing for years on fur coat manufacturers and researchers
using animals to test cosmetics and other products, the animal
welfare movement has a new target: farmers who raise millions of
chickens, cows and pigs in closed, confined areas – what activists
call factory farms.

With all the coverage from various sources, compassionate people
everywhere now have a unique opportunity to expose the plight of
the animals, and encourage others to boycott factory farms, "our
worst nightmare."

Vegan Outreach is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the suffering of farmed animals by promoting informed, ethical eating.